Ruthlessly funny memoir of working front of house: the great deception of ease, of luxe, calme et volupte , of lamplight and conversation, while, behind the swing doors, rages a very differe... read more
Privately published. A4 landscape format with card covers. The outer 1-2cm of the white cover is discoloured by damp and/or age, but contents are in fine condition. Thirty drawings of the Al... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, published John Murray 1963. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Bookseller’s original sticker (John Sandoe’s) at bottom rig... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Blackwood’s first book is a mix of stories and reportage; she began her writing career while married to the poet Robert Lowell. First edition, fi... read more
A jaunty record of the author's trip 'over 1,500 miles awheel in six lands…' It was originally published rather hastily in the 1930s, 15 years before Paddy Leigh Fermor made a similar jour... read more